[Discuss] how to contract correctly?

2013-08-28 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Good morning most awesome BLUers. Question for you contractors. How do you bill your clients? About a month ago I resigned from my job, paid my bills a few months in advance, and have decided I want to and be an independent contractor. I have never done anything like this before. So far I

Re: [Discuss] how to contract correctly?

2013-08-28 Thread markw
Good morning most awesome BLUers. Question for you contractors. How do you bill your clients? About a month ago I resigned from my job, paid my bills a few months in advance, and have decided I want to and be an independent contractor. I have never done anything like this before. So far

Re: [Discuss] how to contract correctly?

2013-08-28 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Get a federal employment ID and open a bank account. Fantastic advice Mark! I didn't know such a thing existed. I just used the IRS online form and got my EIN. Thanks, Eric ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] how to contract correctly?

2013-08-28 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 13:22 +, Eric Chadbourne wrote: A second concern is if my luck does not continue and I have to go several months without any clients. How do you stay busy? Do you partner with other contractors and share when you have to much work? Practice through play, get some

Re: [Discuss] how to contract correctly?

2013-08-28 Thread Jack Coats
Eric, Market yourself ALL THE TIME. Go to Church, and let everyone know discretely you are contractor and willing to 'help' for pay. Go to networking do-good organizations and do the same. Kiwana's is big in this area. Others have JrChaimber of Commerce, etc. Stay active in opensource

Re: [Discuss] Why are all my hard drives slow on Ubuntu? (new computer)

2013-08-28 Thread Daniel Barrett
On August 28, 2013, Richard Pieri wrote: Poke around with hdparm settings. Ubuntu probably defaults to more conservative settings. hdparm shows identical values on Ubunutu and Knoppix, except for queue_depth (values 31 vs. 1), but changing the value under Ubuntu had no noticeable effect.

Re: [Discuss] Why are all my hard drives slow on Ubuntu? (new computer)

2013-08-28 Thread Gregory Boyce
Anything interesting in dmesg related to the drive or the controller? On Aug 28, 2013 6:12 PM, Daniel Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com wrote: On August 28, 2013, Richard Pieri wrote: Poke around with hdparm settings. Ubuntu probably defaults to more conservative settings. hdparm shows

Re: [Discuss] Why are all my hard drives slow on Ubuntu? (new computer)

2013-08-28 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 8/28/2013 8:02 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: On August 28, 2013, Gregory Boyce wrote: Anything interesting in dmesg related to the drive or the controller? Hmm, I don't really know what to look for, so I put the whole thing here (for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS):

Re: [Discuss] Suse sed question

2013-08-28 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
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